PSYCHEDELICATESSEN

Somebody indicates Psychedelicatessen as Threshold's absolute masterpiece, but I just don't agree! Yes, we have no doubt there are good songs in this album, but this is not too much to consider this album a powerful masterpiece! I think that the songs have surely good melodies and a lot of good sound, for example electronic sounds or atmospheric keyboards but i found this album too repeatitive and there's not a good distinction between the songs. At the beginnings I considered this their worst album but recently I'm re-discovering this album! I'm starting to have a good reputation of songs such as the opener Sunseeker and the following A Tension Of Souls but I don't like very much songs such as Babylon Rising and He Is I Am. It is a good album but we're very far from their masterpieces. I think that their masterpieces are their last two albums Subsurface and Dead Reckoning but I like very much also Extinct Instinct and Hypothetical. In these albums we can really found the essential of Threshold's sound and they are very complete albums with all elements of their sound. Unfortunately, there's always a popular convention that forces people to say that the mastepieces of a band always belong to the past... but it's a wrong convinction. Coming back to talk about Psychedelicatessen fortunately I'm glad to say that this release contains my favourite Threshold's ballad: I'm talking about Under The Sun with a very good piano and a good acoustic guitar. Another song that I really love is Innocent a good semi-ballad where Glynn Morgan shows all his vocal abilities. And just talking about Glynn Morgan I really love his voice; it is a very emotional voice. Recently their last vocalist Andrew McDermott left the band and their first singer Damian Wilson has been called as substitute but personally I would have chosen Glynn Morgan. I can't give more than four stars. If you're searching for a masterpiece by Threshold you have to listen to their last releases.